Month of October
Saturday Coffees
9 am
Le Boulanger in Main Street Shopping Center
Contact: Kathy
October 18 Meeting - "Godspell"
Play
7:30 pm
Pioneer High School
Contact: Randi
December 1
Napa Valley Tour
2-7 pm
Napa
Contact : Sue Butler
December 12?
Christmas Pary
Merrilee's House
Contact : Merrilee
OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS
7th Kevin Corral
14th Kindra Claverie
18th Tom Gomez
19th Melinda Gomez
23rd Marti Kranak
October Meeting
When: Thursday, October 18,
7:30 PM
Where: Pioneer High School
What: "Godspell"
On Thursday, October
18th, is our 11th annual Glue Factory Show at 7:30pm at Pioneer High
School. Most of you know we are doing "Godspell." David and
I are disciples and I am a narrator for a couple of the parables.
The music is wonderful... by David Schwartz of "Pochahontas,""Wicked,"
"Pippin" fame. The most famous song is from the seventies, "Day
by Day." We had decided at our calendar meeting that this would
be our October "meeting." Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for
students and seniors over 65. If you want me to get your seats as
a Las Madres "group," send a check made out to "Pioneer Drama" by
October 10th and I will leave them at will call. Otherwise, you
can order on your own or buy at the door. Any questions, e-mail Randi.
Save the Date
Dee will be down at Johnny's the end of October so we are meeting at
Sweet Tomatoes out on Bernal Road near Santa Teresa at 6:00 on
Thursday, Oct. 25. Hope we can get a good turnout! RSVP to
Kathy by the 24th so we can try to get a table to accomodate those that
can make it. And if you can't make it until a bit later that'll
be O.K. too!
Napa B&B Tour
& Taste Event
When:
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Time: 2 PM
to 7 PM
Cost:
$45 per person for ticket (+Hotel & ?)
The Napa
Holiday Tour is the first Saturday of December. Last year Janis,
Robin, and I, with our spouses spent the Saturday night at the Napa Inn
which
is one of the B & B's on the tour. I think there was approx.
12 B&B's that you go
to (some are walking distance from each other on the tour) and they
also provide a
shuttle to get you to each one. The cost this year is $45.00 a
ticket. There is plenty of food and wine at each stop, and the
holiday
decorations and entertainment is well worth the trip. Anyway,
there is so much food, we didn't even have dinner that night.
It runs from 2-7
p.m. that day only (12/1.)
Some friends are planning on staying at the Embassy Suites which is walking distance
from the Napa Inn. If we get 10 rooms we can get a group rate of
$159.00 plus tax for the night. The Napa Inn has various prices
for rooms as
well. Both include breakfast.
If you are interested in the Embassy Suites, can you please contact
me. I have 10 rooms reserved right now.
If you are interested in the
Napa Inn you can call
them directly at 1-800-435-1144
(you can also go to their website to check out rooms and
availability.) If you do book at Napa Inn, let me know as well as
we
will get a 10% discount if we have 8 rooms for our group (which they
will take care of when we pay at check out.) If you stay 2 nights
at
the Napa Inn, you get one $45.00 ticket for the tour included.
The web site to just order
tickets if you are not
planning to stay in Napa or if you are staying only one night
at the Napa Inn, or whatever is:
Any questions, please call or e-mail me.
Thanks, Sue
Christmas Party
Date The Christmas party will be
held at Merrilee's house. We are looking at Wednesday, December
12, for the date. Please let Merrilee know if this
date will work
for you.
Saturday Coffee
Clatches
Continue
After
much discussion, it was decided to try something different
for coffee this year. We will be picking a new place to visit each
month. We will go to that location for the entire month, unless we
decide to have an "away" coffee. For the month of October we will
meet at the "Main Street" shopping center kiddy-corner from Oakridge at
Le Boulanger. There's also a Starbucks in that center & a good
bagel place as well (according to Randi) so there should be plenty of
coffee & breakfast selections for all. We thought it was time to go
a month closer to Randi & Sue Butler :-)
e-Mail
Tidbit COPING WITH STRESS
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an
audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends
on how long you try to hold it.
If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the
heavier it becomes."
He continued,
"And that's the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden
becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. "
"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and
rest before holding it again.
When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.
Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever
burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can."
So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right
now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're
the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have
to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in
the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled
by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it
was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply be kind to
others.
* Never put both feet in
your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand
on.
* Nobody cares if you
can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep
late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's
coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be
the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot
from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some
have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to
live in the same box.
